Although rice grows best in warm, wet environments, excessive heat can disrupt photosynthesis, damage pollen, and reduce ...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) serves as a staple food and a primary calorie source for more than half of the global population. Its critical role has sparked interest in exploring the genetic mechanisms ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making ...

Rice is a staple food for billions of people worldwide, but environmental and climate changes threaten the agricultural yields necessary to support the needs of an ever growing human population. An ...

Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed ...

IRRI and national research institutions across South Asia are modernising rice breeding systems through AI-enabled analytics, predictive selection and integrated regional collaboration to future-proof ...

Drought is the most devastating abiotic stress factor worldwide affecting crop production, severely limiting plant growth and development and reducing crop yields. It is projected to worsen with ...

Rice production in Brazil is a multi-billion-dollar industry. It employs hundreds of thousands of people, directly and indirectly. Given the importance of rice farming in Brazil, researchers are ...